Kendel
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kendel has been given to 1,623 babies in the U.S. since 1954. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 28 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 51% boys, 49% girls all-time.
Babies named Kendel, 2024
1 in 478,000
Kendel over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kendel over time
In 2024, Kendel went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kendel?
Kendel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 246,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kendel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kendel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kendels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kendel was born before 1996 — so the typical Kendel is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 24.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 822
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (199).
Is Kendel rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1994 (28)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.2% average annual change
Spellings of Kendel
Kendel is not the most common spelling — Wendell is, with 39.1% against Kendel's 0.60%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Kendel is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Kendel was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,886,711 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kendel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Kendel is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Kendel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,227,957 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Maryland1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kendel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kendel around the world
Where Kendel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1997–1997#3,824in 1997
- South Australia1979–2003#739in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kendel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kendel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kendel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.